In just 24 session of one hour or less, you will master the inner workings of TCP/IP. Each lesson builds upon previous lessons for a technical yet refreshingly accessible tour of the elegant protocol suite at the foundation of the Internet.

Learn how to....

• Identify and describe protocols at each layer of the TCP/IP stack

• Use routers and gateways

• Work with IP addresses

• Subnet TCP/IP networks

• and more....

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 7 Ratings

Great intro to TCP/IP that is easy to understand - 2001-12-26
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FIVE STARS AS AN INTRO BOOK TO TCP/IP

Before going to any class, or reading any Cisco book or the like, I'd suggest buying this book. If you want to learn about TCP/IP quickly to prepare yourself for greater things this is it. Looking for a first book on TCP/IP - this is it! I have been a network manager for 16 years and this is the book I suggest as the "getting you started book". Actually, if you learn what is is this book in 24 hours of time spent you will sound smarter than many already!!! It gets to the point and quickly. It is a pleasure to read and an easy book to read too. The author purposely does not go in too deep or off to tangents, keeping to the goal of the book - get you started fast. So, as I said, if you looking for your first TCP/IP book buy this one.

Good Overview - 2001-10-02
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The author spent a good amount of time with the second edition of this book.

He covers the major aspects of TCP/IP which anyone in the computer related field would need to know. Whether it's a network engineer, system administrator, database administrator, programmer, technical manager...all of these individuals should have a grasp of how TCP/IP works and the way that computers are networked together.

It's a relatively short book to read because it hits on what you need to know. I've read another book on computer networking but this is SPECIFICALLY for the TCP/IP protocol. Some mentions are given to other protocols such as UDP however.

I would definitley recommend it to get a better understanding of how computers are networked and what issues arise when doing network programming via TCP/IP connections.

To the author: Great job!

I got more than I bargained for!! - 2002-11-22
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At first I was disappointed. I expected this book to follow the customary Teach Yourself format, which includes lots of hands-on exercises. But this book is for reading, not for sitting at your computer and doing some TCP/IP utilities. I realized that Casad was truly an expert (12 books on networking) and that I had a very nice, accurate, 414-page overview of TCP/IP (broadly defined): network access layer, Internet Layer, Transport Layer, and applications layer (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, SNMP).

So the book served me well. I have a very broad technology background including system administation and software development and have set up Windows 2000 networks from scratch including Active Directory and DNS. Now, if I need a quick refresher, I have a good reference that explains the TCP/IP basics. The book will stay on my shelf for a long time.

This is one of three or four books that nearly all system administrators and developers working with TCP/IP platforms should read. Very experienced architects and developers will not find this too easy. For network professionals of course this is only a primer.

This book is mostly CIPU. - 2004-06-04
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"Clear if previously understood." In that sense, it's an excellent reference book, but mostly fails as a tutorial. If you already know a lot about TCP/IP, you will enjoy this book. But if you are just learning, you will need something more basic.

Reading about TCP/IP is about as exciting as watching paint drying on the wall. And Casad does not help that any with his very accurate, but highly technical style. The author seems to know his stuff, for sure. But getting it across to the average reader is another story.

What this book really needs is a classroom instructor to go with it. The material is just too obtuse to be mastered by a simple reading of the text. I'll give the book two stars, only because the second half does become more readable as the author discusses more generic issues of the Internet, like email, security and HTML.

As instructional material in a classroom setting, I would retitle this book "Teach Yourself TCP/IP In One Semester." Again, it makes for a good reference book, not a tutorial.

Amazing book for all ages - 2002-03-12
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Im 16 and an obsessive compulsive computer hobbyist, my friends keep bugging me to teach them about computers but I wasn't quite sure how. I just told them all to read so they bought books too advanced for them. I was in B&N and found this book, covers protocals, the TCP/IP layers, different kinds of servers (DNS, MX, NS etc.), heirarchial IP addresses and domains. Tells exactly how computers communicate in fairly easy to understand terms. A few typos but an excellent book. My friends dont bother me anymore, they know where to go on their own from here =)

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